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Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy : Evidence from the Assassination of President Mckinley
Baker, Richard B. - 2018
accession of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency. During McKinley's term in office the largest wave of merger activity in …
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Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration
Marinescu, Ioana Elena; Ouss, Ivan; Pape, Louis-Daniel - 2022
.9%, as hypothesized by monopsony theory. Based on a simple merger simulation, we find that a merger between the top two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090772
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Antitrust and Competition in Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin; Vogt, William B. - 2021
In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The paper begins with a brief review of antitrust legislation. We then discuss whether and how health care is different from other industries in ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The...
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A New Era of Midnight Mergers : Antitrust Risk and Investor Disclosures
Barrios, John Manuel; Wollmann, Thomas - 2023
, we present a method for measuring undisclosed merger activity that relies on financial accounting reporting requirements …
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Designing Hospital Antitrust Policy to Promote Social Welfare
Kessler, Daniel P.; McClellan, Mark B. - 2021
Applying principles of merger evaluation to the health care industry in general, and to hospital markets in particular …
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The Impact of Firm Acquisitions on Labor
Brown, Charles; Medoff, James L. - 2021
In this paper, we investigate the changes in wages and employment following a firm's involvement in an acquisition, compared with firms not involved in acquisitions. Contrary to the tenor of popular press coverage of acquisitions, which focuses on hostile takeovers of large firms, we find small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239175
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The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States
Borjas, George J. - 2018
This paper examines the evolution of the Mexican-born workforce in the United States using data drawn from the … immigration to the United States in recent years. Interestingly, the share of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce declined … Mexican immigrants in the U.S. workforce was at the 1920 level. The paper examines the trends in the relative skills and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908833
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The Outlook for U.S. Labor-Quality Growth
Bosler, Canyon - 2016
Over the past 15 years, labor-quality growth has been very strong—defying nearly all earlier projections—and has added around 0.5 percentage points to an otherwise modest U.S. productivity picture. Going forward, labor quality is likely to add considerably less and may even be a drag on...
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Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021
In this paper, I selectively review recent literature on illegal migration from Mexico to the United States. I begin by discussing methods for estimating stocks and flows of illegal migrants. While there is uncertainty about the size of the unauthorized population, new data sources make it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243650
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The Effects of Covid-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
Alekseev, Georgij - 2020
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...
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